Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.
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We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
